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Article: Supreme Court seems set to end judicial politicking; A lawyer's strange case is just one example of discontent over how judges are selected.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- November 12, 1997
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When St. Louis Park lawyer Greg Wersal set out to run for election last year, he did something no other candidate for the job he wanted had ever done in Minnesota: He started speaking to political party groups.
Bolder yet, Wersal asked for party endorsement.
Welcome to the world of Minnesota judicial elections, a through-the-looking-glass political permutation where candidates can't say or do much and voters don't know much, but more campaign money is being raised than ever before.
Following Wersal's brief but ground-breaking run for a state Supreme Court seat, the court is poised to enact rules that would put an end to such overt politicking by ...